Re: [Roll] interest in asymmetrical links support?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 12 March 2014 20:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] interest in asymmetrical links support?
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Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert@cisco.com> wrote:
    > This is another pending work related to RPL, specifically on asym. links operations.
    > The work was triggered by a discussion with Don Sturek, but failed to
    > attract WG attention at the time.
    > I can revive it if interests grows?

    > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-roll-asymlink-02

My impression is that we got stuck on asymmetric link issues because many
were unclear how they were going to get ETX, period, let alone assymetric
ETX.

I think that MLE makes some of this clearer.

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